(U FLORAL CEREMONIES. 
to look upon, So inwardly happy did they 
seem. Other boats contained the wedding 
guests. The men who rowed had all garlands 
on their yellow straw hats, arid thus to the 
sounds of gay music they passed on to the 
chapel. This was a simple building, with no 
other ornament than a beautiful altar picture, 
and the flowers and branches of trees, with 
which the walls and floor were decorated in 
honour of the occasion.”* Yes !— 
£1 ’Tis a mom for a bridal, the merry bride bell 
Tolls out through the woodland that skirts the 
chapel.” 
Do you not hear it ringing ? Do you not see 
the gay procession pass onward ? and are you 
not aware of a delicious perfume emanating 
from the flowers which bestrew the way, and 
garlands of the merry company : — 
“ But other lands and other floral rites, 
The thought poetic, and the pen in rites." 
* Bremer’s ” Strife and Peace.” 
